http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
I don't consider myself to be much more than a casual YouTube user. I'll > upload maybe one or two things a year, but nothing amazing or anything I put > any real effort into. > > For example, one of my videos depicts three members of my high school's > marching band dressed in pajamas at an overly girly sleepover. The song used > in the background was "I Know What Boys Like" by The Waitresses. I thought > it was hilarious when I was 17, but I had all but forgotten about it five > years later. > > I was caught by surprise one day when I received an automated email from > YouTube informing me that my video had a music rights issue and it was > removed from the site. I didn't really care. > > Then a car commercial parody I made (arguably one of my better videos) was > taken down because I used an unlicensed song. That pissed me off. I couldn't > easily go back and re-edit the video to remove the song, as the source media > had long since been archived in a shoebox somewhere. And I couldn't simply > re-upload the video, as it got identified and taken down every time. I > needed to find a way to outsmart the fingerprinter. I was angry and I had a > lot of free time. Not a good combination. > > I racked my brain trying to think of every possible audio manipulation that > might get by the fingerprinter. I came up with an almost-scientific method > for testing each modification, and I got to work. > -- http://ryanishungry.com http://jaydedman.com http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
